Did Ron DeSantis really flip-flop on Russia and Ukraine?

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signs books in Des Moines on March 10. (Rachel Mummey for The Post) Anyone who expected Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to echo Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (Ky.) position on the Ukraine war — that it is “is the single most important event going on in the world right now” — was bound to be deeply disappointed. Republican voters by huge margins see China as a greater threat than Russia, and liberals’ framing of the war as an extension of a partisan domestic “democracy” agenda has undercut conservative support.

Still, DeSantis’s latest statement on the […]

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